Lulang tourist reception center and planned exhibition hall

In the design process, the most modified and time-consuming plan is the tourist reception center and the planning exhibition hall. This building used to be two different buildings, one is the tourist reception center, and the other is the planning exhibition hall. In order to build a square in front of the building, these two buildings should be considered together – the site is next to national highway 318, which is the most accessible public space for tourists. The present architectural form is that there is a large corridor between two separate buildings and the roof is connected together. In the beginning of the design, Prof. Chen Keshi hoped to build a demonstration building with the solar photovoltaic panel as the energy source, but later found that if the solar photovoltaic panel is laid on the building, it will affect the shape of the whole town, so he finally gave up the idea. Planning exhibition hall and tourist reception center are all design for modern functions. He thinks that the design should focuses on the concept of "modern", and should create a modern version of Nyingchi industrial fabric building with a new expression.

There were 19 revisions of plan produced in the process of architectural design, but they still fail to make developer satisfied. Prof. Chen Keshi was troubled because the site location was very important, but he could not come up with a satisfactory design. One day when he passed a construction site, he saw a red gantry crane, which is a common crane in the harbor. The huge red beams and columns made him wondered that can the steel structure of the crane be used to show the floating roof in the Nyingchi traditional houses. It is based on this inspiration that he have made the current implementation plan. This is a very important breakthrough, because the so-called abstract expression is also a very tough work, even abstract to have specific content. The wall body of this building is also use the method of Nyingchi houses. The wall is inclined, which is a very thick expression. Although the steel structure is adopted, the steel structure of the flat roof is designed with a cantilever of up to 10m long, and the roof and the wall body of the building are treated overhead. This is a new expression of the traditional residential roof of Nyingchi.

The innovative architectural design of Lulang tourist reception center and planning exhibition hall has completed the breakthrough in the language of the modern expression of traditional Tibetan architecture, which is a successful case of the modern interpretation of Tibetan traditional architecture.